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This chapter examines the works of Judith Butler concerning queer theory, compares them with those of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and identifies select schizoanalytic elements in Butler's work, making room for further encounters between Deleuze and Butler. It explains that Deleuze and Guattari deterritorialised psychoanalytic ideas while Butler reworked them; and that both wanted to craft sexual subjectivities which refute majoritarian readings of gender and sexuality.

This chapter examines the works of Judith Butler concerning queer theory, compares them with those of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and identifies select schizoanalytic elements in Butler's work, making room for further encounters between Deleuze and Butler. It explains that Deleuze and Guattari deterritorialised psychoanalytic ideas while Butler reworked them; and that both wanted to craft sexual subjectivities which refute majoritarian readings of gender and sexuality.